Tag: Oklahoma City Thunder

The 2014-15 NBA season is officially underway, so I'm just a little bit late with my updated rankings of all 30 franchises. So let's get started.
If you want to check out my other pro sports rankings — and I know you do — you can find them on this handy page.
The Criteria
The categories and point values are as follows:
30 points for a league championship, and 15 points for a Finals loss.
2 points for a playoff berth.
5 points for each playoff round win (does not include a win in the Finals).
4 points for a division title (starting in 1970-71).
1 point for a winning season, -1 point for a losing season.
3 points for a regular-season winning percentage better than .730 (60 wins with the current schedule), -3 points for a regular-season winning percentage worse than .270 (2

Old sports magazine? Check. Cool set of vintage sports logos? Check. Prototypical post material? Double check.
This guide to the 1969-70 NBA season, published by The Sporting News, is a wonderful snapshot of an era of the league long past.
Of the 14 teams shown here via logos, five have since taken on a new location and/or identity. Gone are the Cincinnati Royals (Sacramento Kings), San Francisco Warriors (Golden State Warriors), Seattle Supersonics (Oklahoma City Thunder), Baltimore Bullets (Washington Wizards), and San Diego Rockets (Houston Rockets).
And of the nine teams that still go by the same name, only the Chicago Bulls have retained the exact same logo and colors. The rest have since been modified either slightly -- Celtics, Lakers, and 76ers -- or rather drastically

OK, I've ranked the 10 worst NBA franchises ever (as of 2013), so now it's time to look at the best of the best. The formula is pretty simple. I’ve ranked all 30 NBA franchises according to a series of categories, each of which is assigned a point value. I then divided the total point value by the number of years each team has been in existence and ordered by that.
If you want to check out my other pro sports rankings -- and I know you do -- you can find them on this handy page.
The Criteria
The categories and point values are as follows:
30 points for a league championship, and 15 points for a Finals loss.
2 points for a playoff berth.
5 points for each playoff round win (does not include a win in the Finals).
4 points for a division title (starting in 1970-71).
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I’ve gone through my logo rankings for the NFL and MLB, so now it’s time for the NBA! If you want to see which logos I picked as the best for those leagues, I’ve provided this handy reference page. Otherwise, let’s do some roundball logo reviews. I’m going to take this at an easier pace than I did with football and baseball, so this will be running throughout the NBA 2012-13 regular season.
Up next are the five teams of the Western Conference’s Northwest Division — the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, and Utah Jazz. As always, most of these are sourced from Chris Creamer’s outstanding logo website.
Denver Nuggets
Best
What's this, you ask? Well, before the Denver Nuggets came to the NBA from the old American Basketball Associ

Congratulations Oklahoma City! Your new NBA franchise, the Thunder (née Seattle SuperSonics), is now the proud owner of one of the crappiest and most unimaginative logos in professional sports.
Oh. My. God. If that logo doesn't scream "banged out by a student at a local community college's graphic design program" I don't know what does. Reading the press release announcing the franchise's new name and logo/colors is laughable. Here's my favorite part:
With a nickname denoting energy and power, a classic-look logo, and the colors of an Oklahoma sunset, Oklahoma City's NBA team unveiled its identity today.
A classic-look logo? If by 'classic' you mean 'some time in the last five years' then sure, it is I guess. And if the team name is Thunder, why would you want the colors o